--- title: A cat may bring in a live mouse and let it go, patting and chasing i… — Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why… · tree and pragmatics description: A cat may bring in a live mouse and let it go, patting and chasing it; this looks cruel, but the cat is acting on instinct and does not understand cruelty. Who acts: cat, mouse, this. A sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Cats as hunters: presents on the doorm…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry/) / 7 # Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry, sentence 7 A cat may bring in a live mouse and let it go, patting and chasing it; this looks cruel, but the cat is acting on instinct and does not understand cruelty. **Who acts:** cat, mouse, this · **What happens:** bring, let, go, pat, chase, look · **To what, where:** live mouse, mouse, instinct, cruelty This is a sentence of the lesson «Cats as hunters: presents on the doormat and why Tom never catches Jerry» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, mouse, this), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:7 # text = A cat may bring in a live mouse and let it go, patting and chasing it; this looks cruel, but the cat is acting on instinct and does not understand cruelty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 live live ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obl 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 patting pat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 chasing chase VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 nsubj _ _ 20 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 acting act VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 parataxis _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 instinct instinct NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 understand understand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 34 cruelty cruelty NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | may | a cat | | a live mouse | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | a cat *not said here* | mouse | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pat** | gerund | mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **chase** | gerund | mouse *not said here* | mouse | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **look** | present | this | | | | | cruel *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **act** | present · progressive | the cat | | | instinct | | | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on instinct=Eventuality | | 8 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support | the cat *not said here* | cruelty | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cruelty=Stimulus | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:198-cats-as-hunters-presents-on-the-doormat-and-why-tom-never-catches-jerry.lesson:7`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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